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PARIS, France (AFP) — Mosquitoes can learn to associate the smell of the world's most common insect repellent with a tasty meal — and after training c...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States (US) announced Thursday that it was allocating an additional US$80 million to help combat the Ebol...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) President Donald Trump could soon appear on a new US$250 bill in the Republican's latest move to ...
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African Union’s health agency vows Ebola Bundibugyo vaccine by end of 2026
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) — A vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus will be ready by the end of the year, the head of Africa Centres for...
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SBAJ welcomes Anderson’s appointment to NaRRA
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SBAJ welcomes Anderson’s appointment to NaRRA
May 28 10:07 AM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Small Business Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) is congratulating Major General (Ret’d) Antony Anderson on his recent appointment...
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Jevaughn Gordon named among Ignite Caribbean’s 30 Under 30 Changemakers
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Jevaughn Gordon named among Ignite Caribbean’s 30 Under 30 Changemakers
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May 28 09:28 AM
For Jevaughn Gordon, being named among Ignite Caribbean’s 30 Under 30 Changemakers is more than an award, it is a reflection of resilience, purpose an...
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Italy declares red heatwave alert for Rome, four other cities
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May 28 08:45 AM
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy's health ministry on Thursday declared a red heatwave alert for the cities of Rome, Florence, Bologna, Brescia and Turin as ...
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Murder suspect to face ID parade
STACYANN GABBIDON, Observer staff reporter 
September 4, 2003
WESTERN BUREAU -- A deportee, who is suspected of murdering at least two people in St James, was on Thursday slapped with several charges, ranging fro...
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Western Union offers J’cans bill payment option in New York
Observer Reporter 
September 3, 2003
WESTERN Union and Grace, Kennedy Remittance Services Limited (GKRSL) yesterday announced a new service that will allow Jamaicans living in New York to...
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$500,000 reward posted as cops search in vain for missing detective
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
September 3, 2003
THE Police Federation yesterday posted a half-million-dollar reward for information that could help them find missing Detective Constable Devon Pearso...
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Eight get UK scholarships
Observer Reporter 
September 2, 2003
EIGHT young Jamaican professionals were awarded scholarships to study in the United Kingdom for the 2003/4 academic year. The awardees, who had applie...
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Constitutions must address gender, says Barbados AG
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September 2, 2003
MIA Mottley, attorney general and deputy prime minister of Barbados, is calling on CARICOM nations to address gender issues in their national constitu...
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Seven more killings as body count rises
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter 
September 2, 2003
FIVE people were yesterday shot dead in Kingston and St Catherine, while the bodies of two persons were found with gunshot wounds in St Ann and Claren...
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Two J’can firms get EU, CARIFORUM agri-business grants
Observer Reporter 
September 2, 2003
TWO grants in agri-business marketing in Jamaica will tomorrow be presented to two local firms by Ambassador of the European Union, Gerd Jarchow. The ...
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Judge allows prison guards’ testimony against Malvo
AP 
September 2, 2003
FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) --The judge in the capital murder trial of a youth suspected of a deadly spree of sniper attacks last year, will allow the test...
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Latin American, African and Caribbean leaders unite with Castro at UN confab
AP 
September 1, 2003
HAVANA (AP) -- Alienated from European nations after a crackdown on the opposition and the execution of three ferry boat hijackers, President Fidel Ca...
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Omar Davies crashes the party
August 31, 2003
OMAR Davies threw his hat in the ring at the 11th hour yesterday, forcing a postponement for the chairman of the People's National Party's important R...
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Minister says gov’t textbooks adequate for students
August 31, 2003
THE education minister, Maxine Henry Wilson, last night told teachers not to pressure parents with long lists of supplementary texts for primary stude...
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Police inspector hailed as a true professional
By Carl Gilchrist Observer staff reporter 
August 31, 2003
POLICE Inspector Mervyn Harris was Saturday eulogised as a giant in his profession who earned the respect and admiration of not only his colleagues, b...
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Moonlighting cop shot dead
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
August 30, 2003
AN off-duty police constable moonlighting as a bag juice vendor, was shot and killed in an apparent mid-morning hit on a busy street in Sydenham near ...
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Officials, airline execs upbeat about tourism industry
BY DAVID PAULIN Observer writer 
August 30, 2003
JAMAICA'S battered travel industry is slowly pulling out of the steep nose dive it took after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, two wars and cut-...
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Textbook project pain
BY ARLENE MARTIN Observer staff reporter 
August 30, 2003
ON the eve of the new school year, the Government has admitted that its own tardiness in awarding the printing contract for free primary school textbo...
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Search on for missing cop
By Karyl Walker Observer staff reporter 
August 29, 2003
POLICE yesterday intensified their search for missing cop, Devon Pearson, after his car, a black 1996 Nissan Bluebird, with its sound system missing, ...
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25 tourism workers certified under CHA programme
August 29, 2003
TWENTY-FIVE workers in the local tourism sector have received professional certification under the Caribbean Hotel Association's newly established CAR...
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Goodyear awards scholarships, bursaries to 12 Seaview Gardens students
August 28, 2003
GOODYEAR Jamaica Ltd on Wednesday awarded two scholarships and 10 bursaries valued at $140,000 to needy students from Seaview Gardens, as part of the ...
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Antonnette Haughton for Disclosure
August 28, 2003
ATTORNEY-at-law Antonnette Haughton-Cardenas will be the new host of the HOT 102 talk show Disclosure. Haughton-Cardenas, who will be replacing Bruce ...
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Cape Cod’scatch of the day
Novia McDonald-Whyte | Editor - Lifestyle & Social Content 
August 27, 2003
WE'RE feeling a little adventurous this week, and so our pages come to you via Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The ferry docks -- there's still a little bit ...
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Global move to integrate early childhood needs
August 27, 2003
PARTICIPANTS at a global conference on early childhood education now being held in Kingston, are trying to develop a manual for an integrated approach...
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Malvo seeks to use videotapes rather than live testimony at trial
August 27, 2003
FAIRFAX, Virginia (AP) -- Lawyers for sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo are seeking to present videotapes at trial in lieu of live testimony from about tw...
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